Letting Go of the Words

Foreword

I have to admit that when Ginny Redish first mentioned that she was thinking of doing a book about writing for the web, my first reaction was a sense of extreme personal relief.

For years, I’d really wanted to read a great book about writing for the web, and for years, one hadn’t appeared. There were some very good books about it, but not the book I was waiting for: the one that explained how writing for the web is really different, and why, and exactly what to do about it.

This missing book was starting to feel like one of those puzzling gaps in the fabric of the universe, like the fact that you never see any baby pigeons.¹ And it was beginning to look like the only way I was ever going to get to read it was to write it myself. Which ...